[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/1] Revert "spi: fsl_qspi: Use GENMASK"

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, December 11, 2015 at 04:41:50 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On 11 December 2015 at 20:58, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >> On Friday, December 11, 2015 at 03:59:14 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> >>> On 11 December 2015 at 02:57, Troy Kisky
> >>> <troy.kisky at boundarydevices.com>
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> > If GENMASK is REALLY desired, it should be GENMASK(23,0)
> >>> > But since GENMASK is obviously more confusing, let's just revert.
> >>> > 
> >>> > This reverts commit bad490a24212c068c5b718b9189f47ea4075d078.
> >>> 
> >>> Sorry, just fix genmask why revert? because driver author has no
> >>> complaint on this, please don't just say simply "more confusing" more
> >>> over I usually prefer reverting bug fix patches.
> >> 
> >> I also agree this GENMASK() crap is confusing.
> > 
> > Agreed. A simple proof that this is confusing is that it broke the
> > fsl_qspi.c driver.
> 
> Probably your pointed at wrong h on genmask - but this wasn't be a
> proof of any global defined macro it's a mistake of using improper h
> value.

Sorry, I do not understand this sentence at all.

> If something went wrong with the patch then always ask and fix
> for proper thing and blaming global macro which used in other files is
> not a good thing.

Usage of the macro itself is so confusing that even the conversion went
wrong and introduced bugs. Clearly, using the macro is NOT an improvement.
I also vote for the revert.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut